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I have been back in Monaco for a week now and have been trying to get into work mode again. This has been made much more difficult by the fact that I have had a terrible cold for most of the week however I have had time to do some business planning and set some goals for the next 12 months.

I find it helps to put these goals down in writing so below are some of my key business goals for 2010:

Finalise and launch AnyJobAds.com and MC-PSL.com

Finish beta testing of CorpRecordPro and launch to wider market of financial service providers.

Revamp and relaunch RivieraAds and MonacoPropertyAds

Provide a running commentary on the build up to the Monaco F1 and Monaco Historic Grand Prix on this and possibly another GP site.

Develop my website creation, optimisation and management business.

Continue to develop alliances with overseas outsources.

Those are a few of my ideas – hope to keep you updated with my progress over the next 12 months.

Damian

Happy New Year Year and all the best for 2010.

I am just coming to the end of what I would describe as a well deserved break away from work in Monaco. I have been in the North of England visiting my parents for Xmas. My brother Mark and his family are here from Australia and my brother Tony and his wife Suna were up from London as well.

I got delayed two hours leaving Nice on EasyJet and an other 2 hours upon arrival at Liverpool before they would let us off the plane! After that everything could only get better.

Snow in Lytham St Annes with my parents for the first time I can remember

Mark had done a house swap with his family house in Sydney with a family from London so the whole family went down to London for New Year where my parents had a great time at Billy Elliot and we were all spoiled by Matthew and Carla on New Tears Eve. (Glad to hear you all got to the airport the next day for your flight to New York).

Got the snow train to Val D’Isère on the 2nd with Mark and his family and am currently recovering after the first 2nd days skiing. I am starting to believe that I am not 20 any more – it is 10-21 and I am struggling to keep awake.

It has hardly stopped snowing since we got here so the snow is very good.

I am looking forward to a few more days skiing with Mark, Barbie Tim and Georgia and will get the train back to Monaco on Saturday Morning.

Hope you have all had a great Xmas and New Year and hope 2010 will be the bring you whatever you are missing.

Monday was St Andrew’s Day (The Patron Saint of Scotland) and Rob Rutter and Howard Walker organised a Maverick’s club St Andrew’s Lunch at the Columbus Hotel Monaco.

The entertainment for the day was provided by Paul Dobie who coincidentely went to school with me in Blackpool and still lives near my parents in Lytham St. Annes!

About 40 of us met in the Columbus bar at 12.30 and had a lunch of Haggis, Angus Beef with trimmings, cheese and trifle and of course copious amounts of wine. Paul entertained us all afternoon magnificently and when we adjourned to Slammers Bar he came with us and played in the bar all evening.

As you can see from these photos a quiet time was had by all!

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Happy St Andrew’s Day!

I make posts on this blog for a variety of reasons, sometimes just to have a rant about something that has bugged me, or to report on the progress of Liverpool Football Club and the Monaco Branch of the Supporters Club, however on other occasions I make a post regarding a friends business or my business in order to get Search Engine Ranking Position (SERP) for various keywords and help market the business.

The last post I made Oliver Goldsmith, Dita and SALT Sunglasses was made after an evening in the Pub watching Ireland robbed by Thierry Henry’s double handball and the officials inability to spot said handballs and the earlier off-side!

I had watched the game with Anthony Reid who is the owner of SeeQual SARL, a newly formed Monaco Company which has the European Distribution Rights for the Oliver Goldsmith, Dita and SALT Luxury eyewear brands. SeeQual have just launched their new website and he was asking for some advice on how to get a good SERP.

Having promised to have a look at his site and being unable to sleep for cursing the French, I sat at the PC for a couple of hours and came up with a number of very fundamental changes to the site which should increase the organic SERP. I also decided to make a post to this blog to illustrate how a first page Google Ranking could be achieved fairly easily.

Sure enough within an hour or so the post appeared on the first page of Google.co.uk and Google.fr for the following search phrases:

salt. eyewear european distributor

salt eyewear european distributor

european distributor of salt eyewear

oliver goldsmith eyewear european distribution

Oliver Goldsmith Sunglasses European Distributor

dita eyewear european distributor

Satisfied and tired enough to forget the French I sent Anthony an email illustrating what I had done and went to bed.

The following day I spoke to Anthony and after an initial technical problem with the hosting company he got the same results as I did for Google Searches and understood better that it is a necessary part of web site creation to make sure that the site is optimised for the correct keyword phrases.

That evening I was closing down for the day and decided to google search for some other keywords and see if there had been any changes overnight. I was astounded to find that there was no reference to this blog post in either Yahoo or Google and to date there still is not.

If anyone has any ideas what has caused this please let me know, I don’t think the post broke any of Google’s guidelines and the other posts are still referenced, perhaps it is linked with the technical problems with the hosting which put the site down for a good part of Thursday.

I will keep you posted if I anything else occurs!

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SEEQUAL S.A.R.L. is the European distributor of Luxury Eyewear brands from around the world, partnering these collections with the finest retail stores in Europe.

With the head office in Monaco SeeQual distribute the following luxury sunglasses brands :

Oliver Goldsmith

Founded in 1926 by Philip Oliver Goldsmith, a former salesman for a small optical firm, Oliver Goldsmith were the first to see glasses as fashion accessories, the brand was the first to appear in Voge, the first to be endorsed by Celebrities and Royals and the first to work alongside fashion houses to create one-off pieces for the catwalks. Think 20th Century icons. Grace Kelly, Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, John Lennon. Think iconic films of the Fifties and Sixties. The Ipcress File, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Two for the Road. They’ve all got one thing in common: Oliver Goldsmith Sunglasses.

Dita

The story of Dita Eyewear is really the story of life long friends, Jeff Solorio and John Juniper co-founders of Dita and the driving forces behind Dita’s celebrated designs. Their common passion for design and photography led them to introduce stylish eyewear inspired by vintage frames from the 50′s through the 80′s. Thereupon Dita has revitalized the old classics that have played a key role in defining personal character and style.

SALT

SALT., founded in 2006, is an independent lifestyle company that creates premium handcrafted eyewear for individuals with a unique sense of style. The company’s name SALT is short for “saltwater”, a metaphor for the independent spirit and sense of freedom felt after spending time in the ocean. This lifestyle transfers to the brand’s designs. SALT. appreciates simple, timeless design, impeccable quality, useful technology, hand-made craftsmanship and the purest fit. SALT. is modern, yet honors the past, and is driven by a minimal sensibility in all things.

SeeQual pride themselves on not only providing their retail partners with great eyewear brands but also their eyewear brands with great retail partners.

For more information about Oliver Goldsmith, Dita or SALT luxury eyewear visit SeeQual SARL

A good friend of mine Petros Zarpanely has just received authorization from the Monaco authorities for his new company Monte Carlo People Service Leisure SARL.

THis company will be selecting and recruiting personnel for the Cruise, Hotel and tourism industry especially management. Also he will be providing management solution for the above.

Currently they are in the start up stage, but will be actively moving forward in the coming months check out in the near future www.mc-psl.com

On Tuesday we had the first outing of the Monaco branch of the Liverpool Supporters Club.

Seven of us had obtained tickets through the Club for the Fiorentina V Liverpool Champions League game in Florence. We left Monaco at midday and arrived in Florence at around 4-30.

We picked up the tickets at the team hotel and headed into town for some sightseeing.

By then we were very thirsty and managed to find a café right in one of the main squares that seemed very happy to let us in. When we got the bill half an hour and three beers later we found out why! € 8.50 for half a lager, we thought it was bad in Monaco!

Off to the ground where we had a great welcome from the Fiorentina fans and staff with free pasta and water outside the ground and banners inside.

Unfortunately Liverpool played like schoolboys in the first half and gave away 2 goals to go in 2-0 down at half time. They were better (but not great) in the second half but failed to put the ball in the back in the net and ended the game losing 2-0.

We bumped into the Paris supporters as we were leaving the game as they were taking some photos.

Not the greatest result for our first away trip but everyone enjoyed the day out and showed interest in going to the game in Lyon at the beginning of December.

Anyone interested in finding out more about the Liverpool Supporters Club in Monaco send me an email on damian@rivieraads.com

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Back in June I posted about Walter Wolkowicz’s new venture supplying Marine Antiques and Furniture from his shop La Vieille Mer in Fontvieille. I am happy to say that as a result of the success of this site Walter’s brother Daniel asked me to create a site for his shop.

Situated on the main shopping street in Monaco, Boulevard des Moulins, DAVID ART specialise in Antique Porcelain (including Meissen, Sevres, Capo di Monte, Royal Vienna); and Objets D’art (including Antique vases, clocks, bronzes, and mirrors).

DAVID ART also design and create original jewellery using semi precious stones such as jade, onyx, amethyst and coral and combining these with diamonds and other precious stones all set in white or yellow gold.

If you are looking for Antiques or Jewellery in Monaco visit David Art at:

36 Bd des Moulins
Monte Carlo
MC 98000
Monaco

or visit the website www.DavidArtandAntiques.com

A good friend of mine Walter Wolkowicz of David Monaco has opened a new shop in the port of Fontvieille.

This new venture is specialising in the supply of all things related to the sea; including marine antiques, marine furniture, globes, telescopes, ships wheels, paintings, chadburns, lamps, portholes, diving suits, navigational instruments and model ships.

Visit La Vielle Mer at

42 Quai Jean-Charles Rey
“Galerie du Grand Large” – 1st Floor
Fontvieille
MC98000
Monaco

or visit the website www.LaVieilleMer.com

Good luck with your new shop Walter.

Cheers

Damian